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Description: | Token, copper, 28mm diameter. Brimscombe Port halfpenny, 1795. (DH Glos 60). Issuer The Thames and Severn Canal Co., 1795, �d. Obverse Barge sailing (a Severn trow): �Thames and Severn Canal, 1795�. Reverse Entrance to the Sapperton Tunnel. Notes Canal building was a major industry in the late 18th century. The Thames and Severn canal linked the Severn at Wallbridge near Stroud with the Thames near Lechlade. The total length, including a branch to Cirencester, was about 30 miles. The Sapperton Tunnel was nearly two and a half miles in length and an engineering feat. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Subjects: | tokens | Temporal: | 1795 | Source: | Science Museum | Creator: | Hancock (maker) | Identifier: | 1977-381/75 | Go to resource |
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